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PETCO LOVE

PETCO LOVE (Texas) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,314,960 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,551,337). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$34M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$21M
19/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Petco Love does

Mission

To raise the quality of life for pets and people who love and need them.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Petco Love is a life-changing nonprofit organization that makes communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Petco Love's mission is to end preventable euthanasia of shelter pets; increase access to veterinary care and reunite lost pets with the families that love them. Petco Love accomplishes these goals by empowering organizations through grant investments that make the most impact and by creating national solutions to address community needs impacting the welfare of animals. Saving pet lives: Petco Love adopt works to save shelter pets in partnership with animal welfare organizations across the country. Petco Love partners with these organizations to promote pet adoption, fostering and other lifesaving activities and further empowers these organizations with grant investments. Petco Love's grant investments support organizations that are the most productive and effective in accomplishing their mission as determined through a decision model designed to evaluate and assess organizations alongside their peers. Petco Love supports large scale adoption events to increase pet adoption and build community support and transport programs that move pets to areas of the…

    $17,941,227 spentof which $15,288,983 as grants
    55% of program spending
  2. Access to care: Petco Love care supports access to better pet health by facilitating access to affordable pet care, free pet vaccines, cancer resources, and other veterinary support. Petco Love provides grant investments to a variety of organizations to assist pet parents in caring for pets in need by providing veterinary care (including wellness care), spay/neuter services, emergency and other medical care, vaccines and other pet care needs. In 2021, Petco Love launched its vaccinated and love campaign to work with its partners nationwide to provide free vaccines to pets in need. This campaign is designed to ensure that pets do not suffer and die needlessly from preventable diseases, and to date has provided over 3.4 million vaccines to pets in need. Petco Love has also supported pet cancer treatment, awareness and research for more than ten years.

    $8,254,732 spentof which $7,682,964 as grants
    25% of program spending
  3. Reuniting lost pets: Petco Love launched Petco Love lost in april 2020, a national lost and found database utilizing pet image recognition technology to reunite lost pets with their families. Petco Love is working to establish love lost as the go-to national solution to report all lost and found pets and reunite lost pets by uploading a photo and connecting pet parent to the finder or shelter where the pet is located. Since july 2021, Petco Love lost has reunited nearly 120,000 lost pets with their families and has helped countless others by providing information and support to reunite lost pets. Petco Loves activities to reunite lost pets also serves to reduce the numbers of pets in shelters thereby also helping to save pet lives.

    $6,205,050 spent
    19% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,401,009.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($40M) Expenses 100 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2023 Revenue 95 ($38M) Expenses 108 ($40M) Net assets 94 ($30M)2024 Revenue 91 ($36M) Expenses 107 ($39M) Net assets 76 ($24M)2025 Revenue 86 ($34M) Expenses 97 ($36M) Net assets 67 ($21M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (86)Expenses (97)Net assets (67)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $31M to $25M (−18%).

$33M
$31M
$25M
$25M
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of PETCO LOVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 863 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.8M
’22
−$1.9M
’23
−$3.5M
’24
−$1.4M
’25
1.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2022202320242025
Listed16151619
Joined·+2+6+3
No longer listed·350
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $230k.

9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of PETCO LOVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

PETCO LOVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PETCO LOVE.

47%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 18% · 2019 20% · 2020 64% · 2021 76% · 2022 68% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

19% of PETCO LOVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

50% of PETCO LOVE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 13 states.

NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
DE
KS
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PETCO LOVE receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.3M to it.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like PETCO LOVE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 3%Fundraising 6%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Pets Reunited LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds PETCO LOVE?
PETCO LOVE (Texas) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,314,960 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,551,337). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PETCO LOVE have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,314,960 in grants to PETCO LOVE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PETCO LOVE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,551,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PETCO LOVE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing